
Capital Markets: Consider risk-adjusted pricing
Lenders that offer it can be a good option for medical office building financing By Erik Tellefson Risk-adjusted pricing is pricing that is commensurate with a lender’s level of perceived risk in a transaction. Typically, the lender’s level of perceived risk for the purposes of risk-adjusted pricing is related to leverage or the amount of […]

Post-Acute & Senior Living: Florida portfolio sells for $569M
Welltower-CPPIB joint venture takes 95% of six Aston Gardens assets By Murray W. Wolf Welltower Inc. (NYSE: HCN) has partnered with the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) and Discovery Senior Living to acquire the six-property, 1,930-unit Aston Gardens independent and assisted living portfolio in Florida for $569 million. The Toledo, Ohio-based healthcare real estate […]

Post-Acute & Senior Living: Historic former school to be transformed into 152 units of senior housing under $35M plan
LEESBURG, Va. – A former school in Leesburg is being transformed into a $35 million, 152-unit memory care, assisted living and independent living community, according to the local Daily Commercial newspaper.

Industry Pulse: Theaters and Borax – Kaiser Gets Creative
Provider sees opportunities in former theater, office building During the past several years, perhaps no healthcare provider or HRE firm has repurposed or redeveloped more properties than Kaiser Permanente. Recently, the Oakland, Calif.-based managed care consortium was at it again, with two more creative adaptive reuse projects in its home state.

Industry Pulse: Providers Discuss Thin Margins, Building Boom
Operating costs are high, margins are thin and upgrades are expensive, providers say At two recent Bisnow healthcare real estate events on the East Coast, the providers on the agenda said that operating costs are high, margins are thin, and the need to continuously improve facilities to compete and stay current is expensive.

Companies & People: Moving deeper into healthcare
Net-lease broker Stan Johnson Co. beefs up the team started by Toby Scrivner By John B. Mugford When Toby Scrivner joined the Stan Johnson Co. in Tulsa, Okla., 10 years ago, he was ready and willing to start selling industrial, retail and office net-leased properties nationwide, just like the firm’s other talented brokers.